Florentine barrage of EM Forster
leather clad dueling pistols
embracing the David in Plaza Vecchio
but preferring Moses by Donatello
paintings by Claude
and a thousand religious scenes
I'm wandering outside the Ufizzi after
being kicked out due to a "general strike" for the
last two hours before closing
the Leonardo cartoon
Mary, Anne and jesus and john
that's a big cartoon

Goya
Velazquez
(bellockweigh)

Gypsies in Rome try to get their hands down your pants(pockets)
cats in the Colisseum
thumbs up

wandering at night through the winding streets
of Naples windows open people everywhere
wood burning pizza ovens
look out for vespa thieves
they'll drag you down the street

the cops are crooked too
with a shrug

The american consul seriously told us not
to take candy from strangers
probably good advice but this was thirty years ago.

meanwhile a basket of starving kittens mewling and sickly by
the interstate
so profoundly sad
cars blasting by

off to Capri!
the blue grotto
Tiberius

Tyco Brahe? the Danish astronomer with the bronze nose, did he live there?

We nearly got shot by a pheasant hunter on the hill by
the church
where they had so kindly invited us to
join their outdoor luncheon
The hunter ran off down the hill with the live pheasant under his arm